Watch stolen Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile explode after being sold for scrap

Passing driver's car dashcam captures the moment of the blast.

A stolen Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile has exploded at a recycling centre in eastern Russia, killing two and injuring one.

Police and military investigators have opened a probe into the "illegal acquisition and storage of an explosive device" after two warheads from a S-200 Angara missile were found at the blast site, according to local news website by24.org.

The two fatalities and the injury were workers at a scrap metal plant in the Siberian city of Chita, local media said.

The moment of the blast was captured by a passing driver's car dashcam and uploaded to YouTube.

The S-200 Angara is a long rage, medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile system designed in the Soviet Union in 1967, and no longer used by the modern Russian army. These weapons have since been superseded by the S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air models.

Russian missile blast captured by passing driver’s car dashcam

Selling weapons for scrap is not unusual in remote Russian regions. Last month the National Guard in the Kaliningrad region reported discovering World War II shells at a local scrapyard.